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The Skull & Crossbones Squadron: VF-17 in World War II
By Lee Cook
Hardcover
$45.00
By Lee Cook
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This is the true story of one of the most successful of all United States Navy fighter squadrons in WWII.
The Skull & Crossbones Squadron were the top guns of their day and came to be feared by the Japanese fighter pilots who described them as “attacks on us by wolves.” Their victorious achievements are as follows:
- 152 Japanese planes destroyed in the air and two on the ground in only 76 days of combat
- Five small enemy cargo ships and 17 barges carrying troops and supplies sent to the bot...